Live imaging and quantitative analysis of gastrulation in mouse embryos using light-sheet microscopy and 3D tracking tools

Nature Protocols

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 575-585

  Ichikawa, Takehiko ^a   Nakazato, Kenichi ^b   Keller, Philipp J ^c   Kajiura Kobayashi, Hiroko ^a   Stelzer, Ernst H K ^d   Mochizuki, Atsushi ^b   Nonaka, Shigenori ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR BASIC BIOLOGY   (Japan)

^b RIKEN   (Japan)

^c HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL MIGRATION; CELL MOTION; CELL TRACKING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECTODERM; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO TRANSFER; GASTRULATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MESODERM; MICROSCOPY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; GASTRULATION; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; IMMOBILIZATION; MICE; MICROSCOPY; SINGLE-CELL ANALYSIS; SPECIMEN HANDLING;

EID: 84895422857     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2014.035     Document Type: Article

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